Malka Older

In the aftermath of the events of Season 1, Tokyo is more dangerous than ever. For Lieutenant Emma Higashi of the US Peacekeeping Force, her work with Ninth Step Station comes second to finding Commander Vargas' killer––and holding her former boss, Charles Yardley, accountable for his crimes. And for Detective Koreda Miyako, torn between her sense of duty, her personal loyalties, and her new ties to the resistance, nothing is straightforward anymore....

The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set on Jupiter, by Malka Older, author of the critically-acclaimed Centenal Cycle. On a remote, gas-wreathed outpost of a human colony on Jupiter, a man goes missing. The enigmatic Investigator Mossa follows his trail to Valdegeld, home to the colony's erudite university—and Mossa's former girlfriend, a scholar of Earth's pre-collapse ecosystems. Pleiti...

With Earth becoming increasingly uninhabitable, humanity looks to space for salvation. In the arid California desert, two companies compete to send their robots to colonize Mars. DevLok Corporation pits their military contractor logic against Watchover's fast-and-loose startup methods in a mad dash to see who can build the better AI. DevLok and Watchover may be bitter rivals, but scientists and staff from both mingle at the Moonshot Bar to let off...